Peaceable Arabs

March 05, 1991|By Theresa Quain.

NAPERVILLE — Despite Saddam Hussein`s call to Muslims around the world to attack the West, few have done so. Security has greatly increased at all likely targets, but this cannot fully explain the relative lack of Islamic terrorist activity. No amount of security can stop a determined, suicidal terrorist.

Could it be that, in spite of their understandable anger at Western manipulation, Arabs are not the homicidal fanatics they are often portrayed as?